Grants Database

Democracy Fund collaborates with our grantees, donors, and other partners to strengthen and expand the movement for an inclusive, multiracial democracy. We are proud to have supported more than 400 organizations doing this work.

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Organization Name (A-Z) Grant Amount Type Program Area Year
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $114,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Nonzero Foundation Inc
  • $114,600.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2012

The Non-Zero Foundation’s Bloggingheads.tv will launch its “The Good Fight” project, which will feature video-based dialogues on hot political topics between important voices from the Left and the Right.

Project:

The Good Fight

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Jul 2013 to Nov 2014

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Women's Democracy Lab
  • $115,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

Women’s Democracy Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of Panorama Global, radically reimagines what democracy looks like when Indigenous women and women of color are supported and can thrive in elected office. Their work illuminates challenges and experiments with solutions, aiming to rebuild political institutions in an inclusive and equitable model, and ensuring that they protect, support, and nurture Indigenous women and women of color in elected office.

Project:

Women's Democracy Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • Islamic Society of North America
  • $115,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

To support the work of the Islamic Society of North America’s Shoulder to Shoulder initiative in interfaith, islamophobia trainings – entitled Faith Over Fear trainings – in up to ten geographic regions of the United States. This Grant will also support Shoulder to Shoulder’s Ramadan Road Trip 2019 network-building scoping work for the trainings, as well as a monitoring and evaluation consultant.

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder Islamophobia Trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Jan 2020

Strategy:

General
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $115,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project’s is creating a workshop series: Building a Community of Practice: Reporting on Extremism for Small Newsrooms and Independent Journalists, and working on post-production for a feature length documentary on the radicalization of youth online.

Project:

Reporting on Extremism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • El Tímpano
  • $115,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

El Tímpano, a fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media, works in collaboration with residents and community partners to create empowering, two-way channels of information that inform and engage the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrants.

Project:

El Tímpano

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Duke University
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy project brings together local news researchers and others to collaborate on a journalism ecosystem funding model that explores how to fund healthy local news ecosystems.

Project:

DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy Journalism Funding Model Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to May 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Georgetown University
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life supports the efforts of U.S. Catholic leadership to advance the common good in our multiracial, pluralist democracy. The Initiative also strengthens the U.S. Catholic community’s resistance to the misuse and distortion of Catholic principles for anti-democratic ideological ideas and goals.

Project:

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Media, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Christianity and Public Life
  • $120,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL) is a nonpartisan institution in the nation’s capital that contends for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. They believe Christians have much to contribute to the effort to build a healthy, inclusive civic pluralism in 21st century America.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2016

To strengthen reporting and commentary by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

Project:

Support Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jul 2016 to Jun 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2014

To reduce political fear mongering by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

Project:

Support Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2014 to Jun 2016

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Journalism & Women Symposium
  • $120,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2018

The first $80,000 installment is to support Grantee’s general charitable, educational, and/or scientific purposes as described in Grantee’s charter documents.
The second $40,000 installment is to empower the Grantee to increase and improve its organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion practices through various activities, including but not limited to collecting demographical and attitudinal data, a series of DEI-centered talks throughout Grantee’s regional chapters, and continued partnership with outside experts on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Sep 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • New America Foundation
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The New Models of Policy Change project, housed in the Political Reform Program at New America Foundation, works on resilience against right wing extremism and growing political violence.

Project:

New Models of Policy Change

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Other, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Georgia News Lab
  • $122,503.27
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

Georgia News Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of the Institute for Nonprofit News, sustains and diversifies investigative newsrooms by training a new generation of diverse journalists across Georgia through high-impact partnerships with local newsrooms.

Project:

Georgia News Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • $122,650.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2013

Researchers from MIT and other peer academic institutions will conduct research on best practices in the administration of election in order to inform the deliberations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

Project:

Support Presidential Commission on Election Admin

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Jul 2013 to Jul 2015

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Trustees of Tufts College
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2014

CIRCLE will lead a process engaging multiple experts that will develop an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the news literacy and associated fields. Subsequently they will propose and prototype an approach to building new networks between newsrooms, news literacy and youth civic engagement.

Project:

News Literacy Scoping & Planning

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2014 to Sep 2018

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Vet Voice Foundation Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

Vet Voice Foundation empowers veterans and military families to have a voice in our democracy by providing them with the support, training, and tools to shape policy and impact outcomes in their communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. They provide their membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion (WashingTECH) convenes diverse technology public policy professionals to defend America’s rich diversity with programs that promote an inclusive narrative about technology’s impact on society.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • City Bureau NFP
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

City Bureau NFP works with a part-time coordinator to support an informal collective of community news partners to develop a theory of change, definitions, public communication, future convenings and other structures to realize their shared vision for the future of local media.

Project:

Future of Local News Group

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
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